FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
Please check our website at creativeiqsf.com for class scheduling & pricing.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Suzie Ferras: Owner, Suzie Ferras, was born and raised in San Francisco's Richmond District and is very excited to have her small mom & pop art shop in the neighborhood and community in which she grew up! In a continued effort to be an asset to the community, Creative IQ offers a variety of discounts and a Give-Back Program to help support our local families, schools and charities. Suzie grew up engulfed by San Francisco's unique creative energy and culture. She has been a creative artist since early childhood, and has always had a passion for art and education. She focused in the fine arts, the sciences and interdisciplinary education throughout high school, college and adulthood, earning her B.A. equivalent from SFSU's innovative interdisciplinary education department, NEXA. With a background in drawing, illustration, painting and sculpture, Suzie Ferras has been working professionally in the arts for over 15 years as a fine artist, illustrator, fine arts educator, art education program developer, curator and community organizer. She is the head illustrator for the San Francisco based production company, Studio Bee, and her illustration work has been featured in educational broadcast shorts on Sesame Street. She has done a variety of commission work for local individuals, companies and organizations, including her high school alma mater, Sacred Heart Cathedral College Prep. in San Francisco. She has worked with Burlingame's fine art studio, Art Attack for nearly 15 years as a lead instructor, art director and program developer for their summer art camp and after school art programs. She has had the pleasure of watching her young students grow up, go off to college, and then come back to continue classes, as many of her students stay in her classes for years, some starting as young as 5 years old. She has also created programs for and worked as a fine arts educator with the Community College District of San Mateo County, Oakland School for the Arts (OSA) and the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). Suzie is passionate about the fine arts and education, volunteering her time and sharing her craft with the community. She designed and directed the installation of a children's maze as part of an Oakland community development project with California Assemblywoman, Wilma Chan. She created and taught an inter-arts program for Oakland School for the Arts, combining visual art, music & spoken word. She has worked in SFUSD as a mural arts teacher and an interdisciplinary art teacher, developing programs to bring art into science classes and after school programs for students that would otherwise get no art in school. Suzie has also been one of many championing the live art movement in the San Francisco Bay Area, doing live art to live music regularly in and around San Francisco, collaborating with some of the Bay Areas finest local musicians. In 2008, she founded the art and music collective, Local 365, to facilitate collaboration and cohesion within local creative culture, while making the fine arts more accessible and tangible to local audiences. Suzie Ferras has shown art and/or done live art locally and nationally with: The de Young Museum, The New York Stock Exchange, Palace of Fine Arts, Sesame Street (as seen on PBS), SFJAZZ, Galería de la Raza, 111 Minna Gallery, Yoshi's SF, The Jazz Heritage Center, The Jazz School, The Exploratorium, The Red Poppy Art House, Fat Cat NYC, Green Party SF Campaign Headquarters 2008, Haight Street Fair, Jazz at Pearl's, Club Deluxe, Space Gallery, Anna's Jazz Island, Madrone, Balazo 18 Gallery, Cafe Revolution, Art SF, The Condor, The Royale, The Grant and Green, Bruno's, Cafe Du Nord, 1015 Folsom, Club 6, Socha, Makeout Room, Art Attack Art Studio, Pacifica Fog Fest, Patrick Evans Salon, Precita Eyes, Omino Day, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland Art Murmur First Friday Art Walk and MAPP (Mission Art & Performance Project). Suzie has had the pleasure to have worked with many fabulous local and international musicians, including: Marcus Shelby, The Jazz Mafia, Adam Theis, Jaz Sawyer and Pursuance Records, Mochipet and Daly City Records, Airto Moreira, Faye Carole, Lavay Smith and her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Dayna Stevens, Realistic Orchestra, The Shotgun Wedding Quintet, Brass Mafia, The Park, The Whooligan, Evan Francis & Spaceheater, 8 Legged Monster, Horace-Scope, Mitch Marcus, Mike Boo, Classical Revolution, Teeko and 4OneFunk, 40 Love, Aima the Dreamer, Cikee, Lady Fingaz, Mophono, E-Da-Boss, MarkStep Trio, Mike Olmos, Kasey Knudsen, Eric Garland, The Genie, MC Seneca, Mugpush, Surreal, Ren and The Archeologist, Cecil Carthen & Candi Martinez with Skin International, and many, many others.
- What types of customers have you worked with?
I have worked with all ages and experience levels. All ages & all experience levels welcome!